well people like rob enderle will say see there was a 300% increase in Mac viruses just this week. of course it means it went from 1 to 4 but hey at least he would be right for once.
The fact is that *nix's dealt with mass propagating viruses and auto excuting text formats 20 years ago. They figured out how to limit their spread simply. OS X while not bullet proof or perfect has at least a solid foundation to work with. Windows including Vista has an unstable one at best. Vista's security system at least in the betas could be bypassed by changing an entry in the registry. That's secure?
Next up though will be the intelligent ans secure file system. A filesystem that deals with users and permissions on it's own. preventing access to files without authorization.
In the winter my house gets so dry that laundry hung up will be dry by morning. That can be a huge saver. Of course then you have one really humid room for the day.
No the docking ring at the empire state building is just a bad idea. The up current of wind that goes along the building is enough to make docking harder and actually holding a blimp their dangerous. Tower's like that get things like snow or rain "falling" up.
In order to get it to work one would need some sort of deflector dish's to block the up flow. They will need more power too.
note: some sarcasm may be present in the above statement.
I agree Apple's unified system is a lot better. but what happens when I want to take a song or video to my sister's house for christmas but I already have my home computers authorised?
You can take a cd or dvd with you, drop it into any player and it will work.
That doesn't hold true for digital media. Apple shouldn't be specifying file formats, neither should MSFT. Fairplay at least uses AAC. So with better than WMA in that regard.
It should matter what company I choose to play the media on. That's the limit. Apple should license Fairplay at least to other music companies(real, napster, etc) if not hardware companies as well.
not quite the author's point but he still missed the obvious.
Open up your HD and drag the applications folder to the dock. If you click onit, it opens the folder. If you right-click on it you get a contextual menu of everything it contains.
I know that some people use spotlight. both are just as fast for me though if my hand is on the mouse anyways I will use the mouse.
Apple's fairplay DRM is consistent. What you can do with one song you can do with all the songs.
Windows Media DRM can vary based on any number of factors but is what the RIAA wants. They want to limit how some songs are played. Some songs can be burned to cd 5 times others never at all. MSFT bowed to the pressure of the RIAA to try and undercut Apple and instead got bitten by consumers who only got confused.
While I don't care for DRM I do see the point. Of course the rights granted by the DRM must follow fair use guidelines. So far no one has done that.
in Stargate SG1 most of the races speaks either goul'd or ancient Egyptian. problems with translations pop up quite frequently. in Atlantis most races speak a variation of Ancient, with at least 6 different written versions.
You know in the software industry that is a bunch of bullshite.
If that were true then MSFT wouldn't have any money at all as they would be responsible for billions in lost sales annually. Just one Virus through one product line(not even windows but MS SQL) a year would be expensive. Yet MSFT doesn't have to pay so why would Mysql, or IBM, or any other software company for lost sales or data?
Deuterium is normally made from sea water. That's the major hydrogen source most scientists are talking about when they say hydrogen.
Besides with Tidal, wind, and solar power to power a desalination plant that water could easily be converted into useful water for normal consumption. There is no reason why a desalination plant can't be self supporting.
Besides if we are going to melt the polar ice caps anyways that's a whole lot of fresh water right there.
The same way the Yankee group can produce a study saying that most IT admins surveyed don't like linux and are not going to support it in their IT depts.
They use a very carefully selected group. In the Case of Gartner they surveyed Win2k and win2k3 Admins only.
MSFT probably surveyed their people who have bought software assurance licenses. Slashdot users generally aren't amoung that group.
well Nokia 770 is a light weight but it does bring up a good point. It would be interesting to know how much is actually swapped? Also how do you know it's being swapped if it's solid state? I haven't looked into how it's setup. Do they stuff an extra couple of megs of ram and use that as a ramdisk for the swap file?
MSFT has been promising an object or database file system since 1993.
They have yet to deliver for whatever reason.
It's not technological as BEOS did it in the early 90's and then modified it for improved performance.
MSFT routinely annouces features and products and either fails to deliver or takes 5 years to do so.
Apple promises nothing up front, So when they start releasing news on a product you know for a fact that the product in question will have those features. Hence why Apple is building _____Blank rumours are so strong.
So which company would you trust more? The one who promises you stuff and fails to deliver, or the one who keeps quiet and the delivers something you never thought of before, or in a way that makes it easy to use?
More than most people are willing to guess. ads in my home get muted, or the channel changed or blocked by some other means. i can tune out most of them, but some I just can't stand. But ads work like spam. you send out a hundred million identical copies to 30 million people and chances are 5-10 will buy the product. it's profitable I guess. that or a bunch of people are really good at lying.
10,000 odd years ago Antartica had ice free shores.
Why did all that ice form over the past few thousand years? People are affecting things, but fact is that the "normal" temperature has been a lot higher without the effects of pollution. Plants and animals that couldn't survive die off, and those that can live on.
I am more worried about world wide Oxygen levels dropping due to cutting down forests. Also we can use the natural CO2 scrubbers.
I actually keep a utility knife handy. I can zip through 3 of the four sides in seconds and I don't hurt myself or others. barring a knife, I sharp scissors are always around.
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well people like rob enderle will say see there was a 300% increase in Mac viruses just this week. of course it means it went from 1 to 4 but hey at least he would be right for once.
The fact is that *nix's dealt with mass propagating viruses and auto excuting text formats 20 years ago. They figured out how to limit their spread simply. OS X while not bullet proof or perfect has at least a solid foundation to work with. Windows including Vista has an unstable one at best. Vista's security system at least in the betas could be bypassed by changing an entry in the registry. That's secure?
Next up though will be the intelligent ans secure file system. A filesystem that deals with users and permissions on it's own. preventing access to files without authorization.
In the winter my house gets so dry that laundry hung up will be dry by morning. That can be a huge saver. Of course then you have one really humid room for the day.
No the docking ring at the empire state building is just a bad idea. The up current of wind that goes along the building is enough to make docking harder and actually holding a blimp their dangerous. Tower's like that get things like snow or rain "falling" up.
In order to get it to work one would need some sort of deflector dish's to block the up flow. They will need more power too.
note: some sarcasm may be present in the above statement.
while i agree with you it's more like drivers who get lost easily don't tend to last long as a cab driver.
Also while there are some cab drivers who should be doing something else, There are those whose only real talent is directions and locations.
hopefully that will teach me not to eat lunch and post to slashdot at the same time.
I believe it's to late for Leopard to have a new finder but hopefully with 10.6
I am hoping a new finder is in the works. It really is holding the rest back.
though I don't think finder will have it. most likely 10.6
I agree Apple's unified system is a lot better. but what happens when I want to take a song or video to my sister's house for christmas but I already have my home computers authorised?
You can take a cd or dvd with you, drop it into any player and it will work.
That doesn't hold true for digital media. Apple shouldn't be specifying file formats, neither should MSFT. Fairplay at least uses AAC. So with better than WMA in that regard.
It should matter what company I choose to play the media on. That's the limit. Apple should license Fairplay at least to other music companies(real, napster, etc) if not hardware companies as well.
well I might have had it backwards. I have a mac laptop, but I normally use an external keyboard with it.
Also On a laptop if you select a file to open it with the trackpad why would you then press enter or Apple O to open it?
So the rename part would be more useful.
not quite the author's point but he still missed the obvious.
Open up your HD and drag the applications folder to the dock. If you click onit, it opens the folder. If you right-click on it you get a contextual menu of everything it contains.
I know that some people use spotlight. both are just as fast for me though if my hand is on the mouse anyways I will use the mouse.
On Macs Enter and Return do two separate functions.
Return Opens the app/doc/ whatever. Enter(found on the numpad) renames it.
Apple's fairplay DRM is consistent. What you can do with one song you can do with all the songs.
Windows Media DRM can vary based on any number of factors but is what the RIAA wants. They want to limit how some songs are played. Some songs can be burned to cd 5 times others never at all. MSFT bowed to the pressure of the RIAA to try and undercut Apple and instead got bitten by consumers who only got confused.
While I don't care for DRM I do see the point. Of course the rights granted by the DRM must follow fair use guidelines. So far no one has done that.
Your TV auto translates for you the spoke parts.
in Stargate SG1 most of the races speaks either goul'd or ancient Egyptian. problems with translations pop up quite frequently.
in Atlantis most races speak a variation of Ancient, with at least 6 different written versions.
Yea you had better turn in that 3D video card you have there now. it just won't catch on.
Consider this, a smart version of IBm's cell chip, with the other cores designed for one task each. with two of the cores a generic CPU.
You know in the software industry that is a bunch of bullshite.
If that were true then MSFT wouldn't have any money at all as they would be responsible for billions in lost sales annually. Just one Virus through one product line(not even windows but MS SQL) a year would be expensive. Yet MSFT doesn't have to pay so why would Mysql, or IBM, or any other software company for lost sales or data?
Deuterium is normally made from sea water. That's the major hydrogen source most scientists are talking about when they say hydrogen.
Besides with Tidal, wind, and solar power to power a desalination plant that water could easily be converted into useful water for normal consumption. There is no reason why a desalination plant can't be self supporting.
Besides if we are going to melt the polar ice caps anyways that's a whole lot of fresh water right there.
Sorry about the double reply, but i screwed up Gartner and Yankee analysis groups. Well actually i didn't as they both do the same thing.
If you want a Biased Opinion in your favor all you have to do is pay either one of them money.
The same way the Yankee group can produce a study saying that most IT admins surveyed don't like linux and are not going to support it in their IT depts.
They use a very carefully selected group. In the Case of Gartner they surveyed Win2k and win2k3 Admins only.
MSFT probably surveyed their people who have bought software assurance licenses. Slashdot users generally aren't amoung that group.
well Nokia 770 is a light weight but it does bring up a good point. It would be interesting to know how much is actually swapped? Also how do you know it's being swapped if it's solid state? I haven't looked into how it's setup. Do they stuff an extra couple of megs of ram and use that as a ramdisk for the swap file?
It's something to look into though.
Store your swap file on a flash drive and you can ruin it in a couple of months.
Flash is good for some things like portable media, but where constant activity is found you should use something more durable.
Um that's an IRIX file manager. Data information is displayed as 3D images with file size representing hieght.
Look it up. it was pretty cool but ultimately not very useful. You can download the source code and port it if you would like.
MSFT has been promising an object or database file system since 1993.
They have yet to deliver for whatever reason.
It's not technological as BEOS did it in the early 90's and then modified it for improved performance.
MSFT routinely annouces features and products and either fails to deliver or takes 5 years to do so.
Apple promises nothing up front, So when they start releasing news on a product you know for a fact that the product in question will have those features. Hence why Apple is building _____Blank rumours are so strong.
So which company would you trust more? The one who promises you stuff and fails to deliver, or the one who keeps quiet and the delivers something you never thought of before, or in a way that makes it easy to use?
while I have always have had cingular they are nearly as bad as verizon.
I think t-mobile has the better setup and prices. but I haven't used their service so I don't know for certian.
More than most people are willing to guess. ads in my home get muted, or the channel changed or blocked by some other means. i can tune out most of them, but some I just can't stand. But ads work like spam. you send out a hundred million identical copies to 30 million people and chances are 5-10 will buy the product. it's profitable I guess. that or a bunch of people are really good at lying.
10,000 odd years ago Antartica had ice free shores.
Why did all that ice form over the past few thousand years? People are affecting things, but fact is that the "normal" temperature has been a lot higher without the effects of pollution. Plants and animals that couldn't survive die off, and those that can live on.
I am more worried about world wide Oxygen levels dropping due to cutting down forests. Also we can use the natural CO2 scrubbers.
I actually keep a utility knife handy. I can zip through 3 of the four sides in seconds and I don't hurt myself or others. barring a knife, I sharp scissors are always around.